WP Theater has announced their 2025-2026 season, which will include two world premiere productions, as well as the WP Pipeline Festival in the spring, which will feature five new plays written, directed, and produced by the 2024-2026 WP Lab.
The season will kick off in the fall with Monet Hurst-Mendoza's Torera, running as a co-production with The Sol Project, Long Wharf Theatre, and Latinx Playwrights Circle from September 20-October 19. Directed and choreographed by Tatiana Pandiani, the play centers on Elena, who strives to reach the rare feat of being a woman in Mexico's bullfighting scene鈥攂ut she must defy society, her family, and legendary torero Don Rafael C谩rdenas to enter the ring. An official opening night will be held October 5.
The world premiere production of The Waterfall will kick off the new year, with performances beginning January 31. Obie Award winner Taylor Reynolds (Primary Trust) will direct Phan茅sia Pharel's play following Haitian-American Bean, who is struggling with her mother's idea of what her life should be as she returns home to support her mother following a hospitalization. It will run through March 1st, with an official opening night set for February 15.
Closing out the season will be the theatre company's in-house play festival, the WP Pipeline Festival. It will debut five new plays created over the past two years by WP's early-career artist residency through collaborative Lab writer-director-producer teams, ranging from staged readings to full-length workshop productions.
Details on which plays will premiere will be announced at a later date, but for now, the names of the collaborating playwrights, directors, and producers have been released. The playwrights are Mukta Phatak, Jordan Ramirez-Puckett, Deneen Reynolds-Knot, Amy Staats, and Danielle Stagger. The directors are Kayla Amani, Britt Berke, Susanna Jaramillo, Alex Keegan, and Mikhaela Mahony. The producers are Penzi Hill, Roshni Lavelle, Skye Pagon, Lianna Rada-Hung, and Maia Safani.
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